Students Take 领导 Roles in Designing “小女人”

Creating a World that Helps Bring the Story to Life

Few timeless classics feature young women in the center of the action like Louisa May Alcott’s captivating story, “小女人,，讲述了姐妹乔的冒险故事, 梅格, 贝丝和艾米·马奇. 所以，看起来很合适 365滚球官网 production of “小女人 – The Musical,” appearing on the Hartung stage Dec. 6-15, has a team of bright young women in lead roles on the design team. Together in weekly design and production meetings over a period of three months, they worked independently and collaboratively to create the world of “小女人.”

创造性研究带来创造性发现

斯蒂芬妮·卢茨，大三学生，主修 戏剧艺术 from Oakley, California, is the production’s lighting designer. She loves how lighting design combines artistic skill and technical knowledge to showcase the performers and the setting to meet the action on stage.

卢茨花了好几个小时做研究, digging into the script and investigating the life of Louisa May Alcott, 这部受人喜爱的经典作品的作者. 看着奥尔科特的康科德, Massachusetts home and summer house on Cape Cod, 她有了一个启示.

“I made a lovely discovery – that all of her houses oriented to the south,卢茨说. “我喜欢用角度, so I’ve oriented the production lights to the historical angles in the scenes, matching where the sun was positioned in the sky.”

灯光支持戏剧的情感

Lutz shared her findings and emotional responses with the design team at the weekly meetings then used her software training to plot the lights and draft the cue sheet for the lighting console for the performances, 运用她在乐器方面的教育, 色彩理论, 图形和电子.

“灯光是下意识的. It shouldn’t ever take the thunder,卢茨说. “我不想让它成为焦点. 照明设计 支持戏剧的情绪和情感. Everything should be focused on the character.”

The final phase of her work is physical – climbing ladders, adjusting lights and working with a team of dedicated technicians and master electricians to get the lighting instruments in the right location and focus.

“The entire process is more and more collaborative as you go along,卢茨说.

Finding Imaginative Ways to Bring a Story to Life

Brindle Brundage, a 美术硕士 来自St的候选人. 乔治, 犹他州, 也是这部剧的布景设计师, found imaginative ways to create the world the siblings live in. She worked with director Ricky Kimball and other designers to create an overall visual concept for “小女人.” This process typically requires creating a scale model of the stage and its scenery, 效果图, 绘制立面图和比例图. These items are reviewed and discussed at the weekly design and production meetings for input and finessing. Once the design has been approved by the director, it goes to the scene shop for construction by students.

“You have to think about what’s going to be representative and what’s going to be literal,布伦戴奇说. “演员进一步建立了世界.”

In “小女人,” the main character, Jo, wants to be a writer. 布伦戴奇利用了这个关键因素.

“I knew I wanted it to be about paper because paper is so important to the main character,”她说。.

To this end, Brundage created a set with chairs and furniture that transform into paper trees.

“I think it’s a good representation of Jo and her world,布伦戴奇说. “这是一个假装游戏.”

杰西Dreikosen, associate professor of scene design and head of design and technology, oversees the weekly design and production meetings of “小女人.”

“It’s been a pleasure sitting back and seeing our students collaborate on this huge project together,他说.

Lutz said the process of creating “小女人” has been unique compared to her professional experiences. She has designed for The Fisher Center for The Performing 艺术 in New York for the past two summers and designed numerous productions including world tour shows and more than 50 theatrical productions.

“I typically do not get this expansive an opportunity for collaboration, which is a hats-off to 杰西Dreikosen for the open table to sit at,”她说。.

“Some ideas could not be made without that collaboration like quite a few of the motifs that I am using throughout the show to reinforce Brindle’s messages. I use the research and ideas from others as springboards to new discoveries that resonate with myself,卢茨说.

凯利·奥尼尔，戏剧艺术系
2019年12月发布

票

• 票 are on sale now at BookPeople of 莫斯科 or by calling the Department of Theatre 艺术 at 208-885-6465.

价格

• I大学学生免费
• $6 for youth and high school students and students from other schools
• $17 for U of I employees, seniors (55 or older) & 军事
• 成人22美元
• 所有日场的票价都是“量入为出”

显示日期 & 时报》:

• 7:30 p.m. 12月6、7、12、14日
• 2 p.m. 12月8日，14日，15日

位置

• 哈通剧院，625体育场路，莫斯科
• Parking is free in the lot across from the theater and on Stadium Way.